20 Things Developers Didn't Think ANYONE WOULD TRY 

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Dung Pie protection was actually deliberate, they knew they were doing it. They discovered it by accident during development and then decided before release to leave it in, hoping players would use it.

The striker glitch or ditman glitch was actually acknowledged by the devs in the remake of RE4, with the charms you can hang on your case now, one of them is a small model of the striker which increases your movement speed by 8%.

In diablo (1) single player I'd leave any stuff I might need later in town. It doesn't disappear, so if you have enough town portal scrools you essentially have an endless inventory. I mostly used it to keep stuff I couldn't use when I found it, but it was also useful for gathering up stacks of gold for buying stuff I needed, rather than filly my inventory with it. Leaving my inventory free for stuff I could sell for more gold.

fun fact about the dung pie thing, it would later be the inspiration for contact medicine in sekiro, it would give you a long lasting slow tick poison effect and thus makes you immune to some of the worse poisons in the game

Early Cyberpunk had a couple of oversights that could be used to get CRAZY amounts of money. One of them was that you could disassemble consumables. And then sell those dissasembled parts for more than the consumable was worth. then there was one area of the game where there were like 45 vending machines all next to each other -- which funny enough, you can get to right after the tutorial missions -- and there, you would just buy all the consumables. Then fast travel to the same spot to make them respawn. There was another one with a painting, where one of the quests would reward you with a painting you could sell for 4k or something. But then you could buy it for free. These two tricks made buying every single car waaaaaay easier lol.

At some point in the past, playing Deus Ex, I accidentally noticed that I could stack items to the inventory without a limit (that I'd ever found). I think it was as simple as right clicking an object in the inventory while moving it on top of another item, making space for more stuff. I remember having a hard time with hoarding as I had so much stuff on top of another that I had to drop tons of stuff in order to use some of it.

Huge lesson for all game developers: YES, SOMEONE WILL TRY THAT. Related note: GTA San Andreas also had a trick to perform the super bunny hop on the bicycle WITHOUT entering the cheat code. It was just a matter of quickly holding another button just before the jump button (I can't remember which now; it's been years but I could do it again if I got the game in front of me) that causes the bike to spring upwards just like the cheat code. It was just a basic piano input type of technique but once mastered, it worked every time. Once I noticed what I was doing, I was leaping buildings all day long with no cheat code required.

In elder scrolls oblivion, if you had the wizard's tower DLC, you can climb to the top of the tower, save the game, exit, delete the DLC then when you load back into the game you will just fall through the map and land in a developer's testing area that had all sorts of weapons and items for you to collect for free. Once you loaded up on whatever you wanted, you can just fast travel away and download the DLC again.

Correction about the Skyrim Bucket thing. Bethesda DID try patching it. IIRC, they made the hitbox for NPC heads bigger. But that issue was fixed by using a bigger bucket

The BFG weapon wheel exploit is, to an extent, extremely similar to the Megaman Thunder Beam pause exploit, often used notoriously to defeat Yellow Devil. Manipulating time to amplify damage. By spamming pause with the Select button, you could amplify the damage output of the Thunder Beam by essentially causing it to hit the enemy multiple time midflight. Each time you unpause it causes the beam to register an additional hit.

fondest glitch memory was the first one I found playing Ultima ii where pirate ships could be duplicated. Spent hours filling up the oceans building bridges and structures out of pirate ships. Too young to recognize the value in this different mode of extended gameplay. Fast forward years later seeing build gameplay to be so popular in games once the main story mode had been played out.

The "airmail" attack in Metal Gear 5 definitely hasn't been patched out. It's not only something I still do to this day, but it's a recommended strategy in the official guide. The devs absolutely intended for this one to be used.

Jake and Falcon are the superhero duo I needed as a busy father. You guys legit make this UK residents chores soooo much easier to get through! Thankyou from across the pond!

A heads up no, they actually never patched out the Quiet Airmail Trick. Vs the normal version of Quiet, she still falls for the trick. However, if you play the Extreme Version of Cloaked in Silence, Quiet has various buffs to make things far harder on you, including a more powerful sniper rifle, her wearing a sneaking suit that makes her invisible in thermal vision, and... she no longer falls for the box trick and will run off to another position if you try to bonk her over the head with a resupply box. This does NOT apply to the normal mission.

I always play FF8 that way, using the Card Mod ability to junction high powered spells into massive stat points right at the start of the game. I also still have a strategy guide that tells me all the SEED Exam answers to massively increase my rank at the start of the game and get HUGE amounts of money with my regular salary.

One of my all-time favorites is GTA3: Flying with a tank. Turning the turret backwards, reaching incredible speed and then just taking off from a ramp. So satisfying!

Fun thing about number 12 is that the "Dung pie" makes a comback in Sekiro! Sort of: you get an item that ONLY poisons yourself, but it explicitly states that the poison damage will usually be far less than the actually dangerous toxic effects elsewhere in the game.

For Skyrim my favorite exploit was that if you followed a particular path, you would find a chest hovering under Eorlund Grey-Mane, as in under the level, and it contains the entire inventory of Eorlund Grey-Mane and you could take that entire inventory without consequences.

In Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, if you use your tools repeatedly in your room before leaving to start the story you can max out / level up your tools without passing out etc very time consuming but a good way to get a head start 😎

In Ultima Online, you could put your stuff in chests but you couldn't lock the chests, yet you could block access to your chests by locking tables in place around them, which only you could remove. BUT, the severed heads of players turned out to be 1 pixel in thickness--the only item in the game with any thickness--and if you collected enough heads, and put them in stacks, you could place them on the ground like steps and walk over the tables blocking you from accessing another player's chest.

It always catches me off guard when falcon doesn’t break character and makes a bird joke 😂😂 I love it. I also just want to take the time to say: there’s no other RU-vid channel let alone gaming channel that pumps out content as often as you guys with the same consistent quality and energy in all of these videos. I love every single of them. You guys are great and a gem to the gaming community.

Mega Man's Thunder Beam/Pause trick. One Shot everything. And Capcom never added a "pause" function to a Mega Man game ever again.

Similar to the final fantasy exp glitches, there was a glitch in dragon age 2 where when you turned in collection quests, aka quests with no cutscene where you just had to speak to an npc and instantly get exp and rewardmoney, if you immediately pressed the button again you could turn in the quest again for the same money and exp reward, and you could just keep doing it, making it an infinite exp and money farm. The game was supposed to end at around level 20-23, but after trying it out i got a character up to lvl 60 something. Havent played it in ages, so they might have patched it out by now.

Devs: Didn't think to test their game engine to the maximum game breaking potential Players: "You underestimate my boredom"

I'd also like to add DOOM: ETERNAL and the meathook swing. If you use the meathook on an enemy and strafe left or right while you're being pulled in and then jump you can launch yourself higher than anything else. It's so effective and popular the devs added platforming puzzles using it into the DLC of The Ancient Gods part 2

This was great. I got another one for you: In Zelda TOTK, put a box around an NPC, and the physics engine gets very confused. They shake and spin and fly around like crazy. Best of all, using ultrahand, you can glue yourself to them (or glue a box to them and get in the box) and you get absolutely destroyed by high speed physical object damage, and typically launched into the stratosphere. It's hilarious. 🙂

I thought it was going to be sword cancelling, but the super jumps make sense. Could have included the rocket jumps with it, I think, since those also sent you flying in the air.

I personally like the glitch or whatever it is in Skyrim where you can cycle through a Merchant’s shop inventory by punching them. All you need to do is save/Quicksave, hit the merchant (I opt for an unarmed punch), then load the save you just made. Now their shop inventory is refreshed and you can see what new goods they have to sell

A good one to add that is similar to the Skyrim one, in Amnesia Dark descent, the enemies work on the basis of if you can't see them, they can't see you. You can hold a drawer in front of your face and the enemy will act like it can't see you.

The final boss in the first Dead Island game; the one that you fight on a roof. I found a really simple glitch for beating him by accident and out of shear fear. While he begins to transform on top of the helipad ( also where you are ), you're expected to run back the way you came or take the stairs. Then spend 10 or 15 minutes shooting him while he chases you around the rooftop. Instead, while he transformed, I jumped off of the helipad edge on to an air conditioning machine. While standing on it, the main boss can't attack or charge at you at all from up there. You just aim down at him and shoot him in the head until he's dead. I will say when I played the game through again a 2nd and 3rd time... I kept having to make the helipad jump to the air conditioner at least 6 times before landing it. Because the distance between the two is like a centimeter less than your maximum jump distance. I miss playing that game so much. I even accidentally found a way to duplicate melee items!!! And it was so simple... First, find and/or make the most expensive melee sword you possibly can. Then hold right-click to attack-throw the sword, but don't let go. While holding this, press the drop button. Your character will drop the sword you're holding, then you can still throw the sword you were holding into a wall or tree and retrieve it. And ta-da!!! Now you have two swords... You can just do this over and over and over again, then sell the swords and have unlimited money.

The Alice one reminds me of the Diablo: Hellfire expansion. It added one new class to the game (Monk), but editing a .txt file in notepad unlocked Barbarian and Bard, which are functionally complete but use the sprites for the Warrior and Rogue. Two additional quests can be unlocked the same way.

Really surprised you left out the Hitman homing briefcase. They must have really underestimated how many people would have used it as a weapon and it eventually became a feature in the game.

I'd like to mention that the MGSV airdrop tactic still works on Quiet if you keep her distracted, if you poke your head out long enough for her to take aim but before she can nail your brain, she'll be too distracted to dodge the box.

Number 6: You can also do the same thing in Space Engineers, requires more editing than one line but you can enable all the DLC by switching a value out pretty much on each item.

On Merceneries 2, on PS3, you get to a point where you can buy Attack Helicopters from one of the factions and they're not super expensive. They make the missions incredibly easy. Especially this mission where you're suppose to go through this fort to rescue someone. You can just attack from above in the comfort of a helicopter with missiles etc and it is a breeze.

The metal gear solid supply Trick was net patched, currently playing this game and i got quiet with that Trick quite easily. In the extreme Version of the Mission she does jump away one second before the supply Hits her but if you stand up for a milliseconc and make her shoot you just as the supply reaches her she will get hit

The heavy rain one had me in tears. 😂😂

From what I remember from the swing set glitch. It actually WAS patched out, but the player base got so pissed off about it, that it got patched back in

I remember playing gta 4 with my step brother and he showed me the swingset glitch. It made me laugh for a long time which was one of my first experiences playing a video game. Great video hope to see more!

I remember in Red Dead trying to do the bird hunting tomohawk challenge, completely unaware you could dead-eye the birds. I did the first 3 quarters of the challenge very slowly by manually aiming and timing every shot.

I remember when people first discovered the swing set cannon in gta4. If you'd go online there was a line around the block of other players waiting to drive into it and get shot across the map.

The Super Bounce still works in anniversary, it's just that because it's based on hitting the seams exactly, the margin for error is much smaller with hi res textures.

Barbas (dog) Skyrim can be kept as a follower if you don’t complete the daedra best friend quest. He doesn’t do much damage but can push them onto the floor making your life much easier but as a daedra he’s invincible so sponges damage and distracts enemies. A good boy indeed

Final Fantasy 8 is BEST played by not gaining levels. It's part of the core mechanic of the game. Once I got like 25 hours in and realized the game didn't work like typical RPGs of that time, it was a no-brainer to start over. I'm actually working through the remaster now with my first run where I only fight in required battles. Makes this game SO much more fun (albeit, absolutely NO challenge). It's really just a different way to power-level via the junction ability, judicious use of the draw spell and GF abilities, and a lot of Triple Triad.

I accidentally discovered that heat seeking missile one in RDR lol. So fun. The 2x full auto Warmonger from Ratchet and Clank was dope. Equip the Warmonger, fire missile, immediately swap to Blast Pistol (using wheel), full open inventory and I equip Blast Pistol. You’ll be holding the Warmonger but firing with the speed of the blast pistol.

I knew about the bucket thing in Skyrim, I didn't know it can be used to steal though this is news to me and shows that after over 10 year the game is still fascinating to me

I don't remember it exactly because I haven't played it for a long time, but in Skyrim I managed to steal one of the Barenziah Stones under the supervision of an NPC by sending a sneaking companion.

They didn't patch the airdrop trick out in MGS5, that's an intended mechanic. It's literally a side objective in the harder version of that mission if I remember correctly. You just have to pop your head up to make her shoot right before it lands or she'll run away.

One fan theory is that Dogmeat is a synth, which would explain his ability to do supercanine fetching. And the real gamebreaker for ff8 is apparently that the difficulty of enemies is based on your level - so going through the game without levelling as much as possible like the ability to turn enemies into spells so they don't give xp makes it much easier.

I heard that they apparently patched Dogmeat getting items out of locked containers. However, Cait and Ada can pick Master locks, so they can fill a similar role.

There is a Similar Trick like the one in Red Dead Redemption in Fallout 76. If you use a Granade Launcher (Automatic or not) and Shoot them with VATS, the Granades will follow the Enemy. Its a Nice Trick to Use against Flying Enemys like the Scorched Beast and Queen. But also if you use a Laser weapon Like the Alien Desintegrator and Jump or fall the Energy Bolt will fly in a Curve and still hit the Enemy.

this is a great upload! just commenting to show some support for one of the best gaming channels in RU-vid history 🦅 i have like 300-400 hours on fallout 4 and i had no clue dogmeat could steal the cryolator

Elder Scrolls Oblivion Game of the Year Edition: you can give your friend (who only has the base game) all the additional content by having them use the 2nd disc to install it

That GTA swing set glitch was such a nostalgic throwback

In the original halo you can save all the human soldiers on the silent cartographer. You can use warthogs to transport them into the structure you had to go. While you continue the quest you'll get the audio scene where the humans are ambushed and killed, but when you walk out they're still there. A bonus is that you get attacked by elites but now all your buddies are there helping you.

My favorite exploit of FF2 was the swap spell. Use it on low level enemies, and your HP and MP become super low. The game sees this as you losing a bunch of each, and you get massive boosts to each. It didn't take long to be rocking 9999 HP and MP.

I like that they said the Ditman has moderately tricky timing. You just press the aim button, immediately open inventory. It is one of my favorites. Not only speeding up Leon's run speed but enabling some out of bounds glitches that skip some if the worst sections of the entire game. But it also speeds up firing rates of other weapons. I'm not sure why but the TMP shreds with Ditman.

always loved the "heat seeking Explosives" in RDR

Great content! Tricky to understand at 1st but Skyrims restoration potion glitch is waaay waay OP.. killing dragons 1 shot with an enchanted fork never gets old 😂

Halo 2 super jumps were the holy grail for me. That is all my group of friends did for a period of time was join lobbies and teach each other new jumps we learned. We also used to recruit people in online team deathmatch games to teach us new super jumps we saw them use mid game. Nothing better than pulling off a clean super jump with the sniper in a live game and rack up the kills where no one else could shoot you.

OK the last one is genuinely hysterical omg. My own personal favorite comes from of course my favorite game - Final Fantasy 11. Specifically how the community turned the Ninja job into a tank. When it release with the Rise of the Zilart expansion it was intended as a damage & scouting role, but at level 12 it can learn the Utsusemi ninjutsu which grants 3 shadow clones that will completely absorb all damage from a single hit. Because of this people used the Warrior subjob for the provoke ability (to spike aggro) and thus, shadow tanking became a thing. The devs even commented on it at the time in a dev update post saying they never foresaw it and in one of few very rare moments actually decided to just run with it and they continued to support the playstyle ever since.

Final fantasy 8 had this thing where the regular enemies would level up with the characters so you couldn't really grind to one shot them, but none of the storyline fights leveled up along with the characters so you could grind 2 level 99 just fighting the guys around Balam Garden and then just one shot bosses.

Number 19 immediately made me think of the Mega Man boss fight that was made way too easy by using the pause/unpause trick.

That Final Fantasy 2 trick brings back memories. I discovered the trick and just increase HP and magic levels enough before you enter the castle to beat the mid game enemies you are supposed to avoid at the early game. Farming golden armors and being strong enough to breeze through until the late game. I even discovered the hidden weapon Masamune(same with Wild Rose) because the young me checks on every wall I can go through. I even taught my friend(diligent enough to grind 9999 HP on Final Fantasy 1 which was harder) on how to do it in 2.

Shopkeepers have been getting screwed over by players since Daggerfall at the very least; all you had to do is go into a shop, wait until night when the shop was supposed to be closed, and you'll see the shopkeeper still standing there but apparently he's sleepwalking because you can just take whatever you want without getting caught.

The super jump in halo 2 also allowed you to get outside of normal areas, like the tops of map towers. On zanzibar you could also do a tank flip and wall break to get outside. Loved glitch hunting in that game

You missed the most unknown and by far my all-time favorite glitch that I have ever seen in any video game ever, and it was in Halo 1. You have to be playing as two players --I can't remember which map, or if there's a specific map -- but both players need the energy sword, then go to any place where one wall meets another wall at an angle, one stands on top of the others head, both players face the crack, the player on the top jumps up and down, then both players hit jump melee and fire buttons at the same time and you can literally shimmy up any wall, any surface, Anywhere! My buddy and I were so far away from the play area that we couldn't see a single player - even using our scope!

Falcon,the legend of my childhood ..much respect for this man❤️

I figured out the knife trick in RE: Code Veronica because the limited amout of ammo they gave you throughout the game. I don't think I would have made it through without that trick. Pretty cool to see it on this list! Also the Shaun glitch has to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen in gaming history, there's nothing else like it🤣

I remember discovering the bucket trick on Skyrim, naturally 🤣🤣.

For Elders Scrolls VI, they have to either leave the bucket trick in or put some kind of reference to it. Like if you try the merchant is like, "You're not robbing me blind! I'm not falling for that again!"

I love this idea! I hope you do a second video on this! You could add the ridiculous alchemy / enchanting loop in skyrim where you can get damage enchantments that do like 10 billion damage on a wooden sword. If you're not familiar with it, it's where you use a boost enchantment potion to enchant equipment with boost alchemy, then repeat with ever increasing numbers until you are able to make a single weapon do damage values so high it can literally break the game from overflow.

Love these longer videos! I still screw around with the swing sets in GTA IV.

I'd guarantee that Dragon Quest(Warrior) 3 probably didn't expect anybody to try getting a Wizard to learn Open before getting either the Thieves' Key or Magic Key. Though you cannot actually get anywhere by just skipping Thieves' Key, if you go to the cave leading to Portoga as soon as you arrive in Romaly, you can portal to Dhama and Baharata without ever picking up the letter for the Dwarf. This allows you to fight the second Kandar battle and get the ship before you have opened up the path to Baharata.

When I was 5 or so, I was playing Super Conflict (turn based strategy) on the SNES. Each unit has their powerful main attack which costs ammo, and a secondary weak machine gun that is infinite ammo. I found out you can switch your attack in mid animation without using ammo (So I'd use the weak secondary, then switch it over to the powerful attack during the animation, and the damage of the powerful attack would register on the enemy. That glitch stuck with me to today. Memorable.

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion had a bug where you could make paint brushes freeze in mid air. You could then climb on top of them and use them to reach anywhere you wanted, even the top of the tower in Imperial City

I would watch a 2 hour videos of these kinda compilations from Gameranx.

I love that this video is so long and not only 10 minutes or less like common RU-vid videos! 👍🏻

FF8 is so fun to break. The Curaga Trick makes the first disk trivial. I even broke it enough to get Lionheart in disc 1

I never played Alice past the old console demo. But if I did, I'd love to have the "Fleshmaiden" outfit. It looks wicked sick.

windbombing is another neat trick in 'zelda: breath of the wild', place a spherical bomb behind you on the edge of an elevated platform, jump off and activate your bow's slomo, hold up on the D pad, select your cube bomb, drop it with L, quickly switch to your spherical bomb and blow it and if your cube bomb hits you it'll send you flying for miles through the air. you can complete shrines in seconds by just vaulting yourself over the wall to the other side lol

The GTA IV swing glitch gave me and my GTA group of friends hours of entertainment. Setting it up just right and seeing how far across Broker we could get catapulted was some of the best times I had with the games freeroam portion of the multiplayer.

You can still hit Quiet with a supply drop, you just gotta keep aiming so her AI doesn't move at the last minute.

The first Wild Arms had an item dupe/max trick. You could use this on the apples, that raise your stats, and be maxed very early in the game.

In Fallout 4, there's an exploit that you can STILL use where you can craft things that you don't have materials for by attempting to craft something that you DO have materials for, then quickly swapping to another item in the menu, but the item you want to craft has to be selected before the confirmation prompt pops up. It still consumes any resources that you happen to have that the item does require, but even so, you aren't going to need them all. I used to go hunting for molerats just to loot their meat, because below the molerat cooking option was very valuable meat I could use for rapid healing or quick caps. Can't remember if it was Deathclaw or Mirelurk Queen steak, but Mirelurk Queen gives you two portions every craft, if I recall correctly, so that's more valuable.

I already knew about the Skyrim bucket trick, but I forgot about it and it's still hilarious.

The multitude of glitches with Salvador from Borderlands 2. Too many to list them all. But in summary (for those who do not already know), many weapons in Borderlands 2 have special effects. The character Salvador has the ability to dual wield. This can create a lot of interesting interactions between weapon effects.

I heard about that trick in Doom 2016 but still trying to time it right to get it to work. It reminded me of the pause trick in the first Mega Man. It usually worked with ElecMan's weapon, making the Yellow Devil and even Dr. Wiley easy to knock off.

The homing throwable trick works in rdr2 too if you use throwing knives, hatchets, and tomahawks

I just knew that you would be taking about the Skyrim trick where you can make impossibly overpowered gear by ping-ponging between enchanting items with alchemy perks and then making potions to increase enchant. However, I was delighted to learn the bucket helmet trick. That's pretty funny. 🤣

I'm always hyped when Gameranx has a new upload. Jake and Falcon are some of my favorite gaming personalities - thank you to all of Gameranx for the work you all do on the channel!!

Heres a good one. In Borderlands Presequel, one you get the “Stingray” vehicle you can super bounce. There the jump command and the “slam” command. If you so a rapid succession of jump-slam-jump you can super jump. I’ve used it to completely scale buildings on the lunar surface. Really great for getting way up high and just gliding over lava rivers

In Morrowind... well, there are loads of interesting things you can do, it's a Bethesda game after all - but one of the most game-breaking thing you can do is brew intelligence potions. The quality of the potions you make depend on your alchemy skill... and your intelligence. So, you make an intelligence potion, quaff it, repeat. Soon enough each potion you make gives you thousands of intelligence (Max without potions/gear is 100) and lasts for hours. Also sells for a huge amounts of money, so you can sell some to buy more ingredients for the potions. To make this even better, there is one vendor in Wolverine Hall who sells ingredients for this potion and his stock replenishes every time you open the trade window. If that's not enough, you can actually increase the amount of stock a vendor has by just selling things back to them. If they had 5, you sell them 5, they now have 10. If you buy those 10, they will replenish back to 10. Not really game-breaking but makes things a lot easier.

The Doom one is very similar to one of the most classic ones ever, the bomb pause trick in Blaster Master on the NES. It was one of the tricks they showed you on the little mini advert for Nintendo Power that came with every NES game. Didn't work on every boss, but the ones that it did could be killed with a single bomb and a good timed pause.

I remember Morrowind had some really nice gliches to level some stats extremely fast.

Gotta love how bethesda just decided to keep the skyrim bucket trick in. They actually appreciated how smart their players were and rewarded them for it by keeping the glitch in the game.

super bouncing in Halo 2 was probably the single greatest time investment I ever made in a game. I learnt so many new bounces and multi bounces that when you managed to find games without hackers and bridgers I could dominate by being in so many different/difficult to locate spots or out of bound areas. I still remember being chased out of the parking lot in Terminal and bouncing up above them and then systematically shooting my pursurers as they came jumping out looking down for me when I was actually above them.

Lets be real, us gamers' collective will to break developers' creations at all costs is a force of nature

MGS3 is one of my all-time favorite. On the PS2 and HD Collection, you could instant reload by just unequipping and reequipping your weapon. Same with an RPG